tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188100562015-03-08T14:24:46.402-07:00tabloid babytabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.comBlogger2882125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-61772106489761165472010-12-19T19:09:00.000-08:002010-12-20T10:56:45.469-08:00Buy, byeMike Wallace, CBS News ‘60 Minutes’ Sad, funny, undeniably authentic, Tabloid Baby tells the tale of what befell too much of mainstream television news over the past couple of decades as the bad drove out the good. Maury Povich Burt was there for the birthing of tabloid, he became the heart of the genre, and now he’s written the Bible. Paula Zahn, Fox News Channel It was a fun read. I tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-60190250671642041992010-11-19T09:02:00.000-08:002010-12-19T19:08:03.826-08:00Chris Montez concert tonight!Pop music icon Chris Montez-- whom the LA Weekly calls "the great, underrated pop-rock legend," is in concert tonight at El Camino College in Torrance, just outside L.A.Appearing with the singer known for Let's Dance and Call Me are the great lost Sixties pop group Help Light and a special preview of the 2011 Montez bio feature, El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-23953691091172887312010-11-13T08:17:00.000-08:002010-11-13T09:51:57.509-08:00Collect all three Chris Montez posters!Chris Montez, the man the LA Weekly calls "the great, underrated pop-rock legend" performs Friday night at El Camino College in Torrance California, along with a preview of the upcoming musical feature, El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez Story (and a special performance by the great lost Seventies pop band, Help Light).This is the third in our series of collectible tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-20457884897169794112010-11-13T08:00:00.000-08:002010-11-13T09:49:12.074-08:00Danny Gans' manager settles lawsuit aganst Donny & Marie; apologizes for "hurtful" comments that "may have been made"Danny Gans' former manager Chip Lightman has gotten the "amicable" resolution to the lawsuit he fired against Donny & Marie Osmond for firing him as producer of their show at the Flamingo in Las Vegas, after all.Lightman released a statement yesterday:“I am pleased we were able to resolve this matter and am sorry that, in the heat of battle, comments may have been made that were hurtful to the tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-58773740352977953622010-10-31T10:50:00.000-07:002010-10-31T10:56:35.912-07:00Collect another Chris Montez concert poster!Collect all three!And see Chris perform along with a special preview of the movie and special guests at El Camino College in Torrance, California on Friday November 19th.Click here for details.And click here, then click the image to enlarge, hang it up or pass it around!tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-76189161664987194762010-10-30T21:35:00.000-07:002010-10-31T08:47:09.610-07:00Randy Travis divorces his old ladyCountry music superstar Randy Travis has divorced his wife Lib Hatcher after 19 years of marriage.Randy Travis is 51. Lib Hatcher is somewhere around 70.Though there have been rumours Lib might have been Randy's "beard" (they did have a house in Hawaii), there were reports back in July that Randy was cheating with the wife of his dentist. Lib reportedly caught him by sticking a spycam on his tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-64637202875612025342010-10-30T16:30:00.001-07:002010-10-30T19:48:44.240-07:00George Hickenlooper's last Facebook post"Thanks to all my new friendsin Austin for making last night'sscreening such a great success!I love Austin! One of the if notthe best audience in the world.Literally.Hope to come back soon...On to Denver!"The film director, whose fine work included Mayor of the Sunset Strip, died last night in Denver at 47. He made the post yesterday, before heading to Denver for a film festival with his new tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-89748249879678335902010-10-30T08:03:00.000-07:002010-10-30T08:19:21.947-07:00Danny Gans death house soldThe mansion in which Danny Gans died has been sold, cutting another tie between the family of the late Las Vegas superstar and the city with which he'd been identified for more than a decade.Coldwell Bankers announced that the lavish estate owned by Gans and his wife Julie was sold quietly this week to a couple from California. Reports say they paid about $9 million for the 9,400-square-foot tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-43173678047494121782010-10-27T13:20:00.001-07:002010-10-27T13:25:51.597-07:00Collectible Chris Montez concert poster!Click here, then click the image to enlarge, hang it up or pass it around!tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-58316900810665484612010-10-26T00:13:00.000-07:002010-10-26T12:15:57.968-07:00Katie Couric thinks you need a bathOnce was a time when network news nabobs considered everything between the New York-DC corridor and Los Angeles as "flyover country"-- the vast middle of America that looked eastward for guidance and leadership, and west for news of dead celebrities and earthquakes.,not worthy or economical for coverage beyond the occasional natural disaster or shooting spree. That time passed abut twenty-five tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-85776780928974397582010-10-24T08:42:00.000-07:002010-10-24T08:43:40.132-07:00Art Vargas brings touch of Prima to the PalmsArt Vargas himself summed it up in hipster code for his Facebook friends early this morning: "Mondo Lounge was a gass!... Swingin time with the swank set... very cool crowd, swank settin' hipsters... diggin the scene, layin it down old school style... like no other dig it the most daddy!"The red hot Vargas brought down the house at the Palms' Key West ballroom in Las Vegas last night, working thetabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-73092362038407298812010-10-22T12:33:00.000-07:002010-10-22T16:44:30.239-07:00Michael Douglas, the defiant oneMichael Douglas, shown this morning in New York City, is said to responding well to chemotherapy and radiation treatment for his Stage 4 throat cancer. The Oscar® winning actor has roles in two movies released this year that will surely vie for Best Actor Academy Award® nominations. We expect to see him at the ceremony after he beats this. tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-13070389688677231302010-10-22T09:57:00.000-07:002010-10-24T08:35:36.800-07:00Art Vargas plays the Palms Saturday nightArt Vargas, the charismatic, energetic veteran showman we've picked as a prime candidate for a showroom of his own on the Las Vegas Strip, gets a few blocks closer when he brings his show to the Palms Casino Resort Saturday night at.That's tomorrow. At 8.Hot off last weekend's success at the Rampart, Vargas and his group The Swank Set will be the highlight of the "Mondo Lounge Ultimate Retro tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-14451972042913481132010-10-19T17:26:00.000-07:002010-11-10T14:37:29.419-08:00Chris Montez returns to El Camino College!Pop music legend performsFriday, November 19th!With sneak preview of the Chris Montez biopic!It'll be a rock 'n' roll homecoming for pop icon Chris Montez when he plays at El Camino College on November 19th, along with another sneak preview of his film bio-in-the-making.Montez grew up in nearby Hawthorne, California, and enrolled at the Torrance college back in the Sixties, after he washed out oftabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-17932871674012963232010-10-18T15:46:00.000-07:002010-10-18T16:27:15.592-07:00Tragic Kingdom: Disneyland's haunted parking structure of terrorThe suicide last night at Disneyland's Mickey & Friends parking structure adds an unintended real-life macabre twist to the park's Halloween Time celebration. Attractions including Space Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion have been tricked out in special Halloween themes. How many parents, while walking their kids to the escalators on their way from their cars to the tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-42376215176756224332010-10-18T15:20:00.000-07:002010-10-18T15:24:51.620-07:00Another suicide at DisneylandA man committed suicide yesterday by leaping from an upper floor at the Mickey & Friends parking structure at Disneyland. Anaheim Police say the unidentified man, believed to be in his forties or early fifties, jumped from the southwest corner of the structure and was found around 8:45 p.m. Police spokesman Rick Martinez said the man didn't carry any identification on him but did leave a tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-1258203464343619102010-10-18T09:56:00.000-07:002010-10-18T13:06:57.779-07:00Why can't we find cans of Planters Honey Roasted Peanuts in Los Angeles?Cans of Planters' popular honey roasted peanuts disappeared from supermarket shelves months ago, around the time its "healthy" "NUT-rition" cans began taking up space.Mr. Peanut, what happened?tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-88049423628976188152010-10-14T16:27:00.000-07:002010-10-14T17:56:05.362-07:00Steve Friess pulls boners in LA Weekly transgender sportswriter storyLas Vegas blogger, New York Times stringer, Gay Vegas author, concert promoter and comp queen Steve Friess apparently made some embarrassing errors when he brought his opinionated work to Los Angeles in the form of a reheated LA Weekly cover story on the tragedy of LA Times sportswriter Mike Penner, who committed suicide after coming out publicly as a transgender, then changing his mind.A tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-89930864318127963072010-10-14T09:12:00.000-07:002010-10-14T09:14:58.063-07:00The Yankles? New team takes new swing at bringing professional baseball to Israel!Remember the Israel Baseball League? How could you forget? Tabloid Baby's comprehensive coverage of the disastrous 2007 season and the tragicomic failed attempts to carry on led to our editor and Our Man Elli in Israel being submitted for a Pulitzer Prize-- being cut off at the pass by gatekeeper Sig Gissler-- and given a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. Now, a new group of tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-11921138124290788722010-10-13T09:39:00.000-07:002010-10-13T11:08:28.066-07:00Welcome to LA, Richard JohnsonTabloid Baby pal Richard Johnson is leaving his job as editor of the New York Post's Page Six and moving to Los Angeles. Johnson has been at the helm of the most influential gossip column of our time for close to twenty five years, and a made a little gossip himself along the way while steering the column from the days of Sukhreet Gabel and Mark Gastineau. We'd have thought Johnson would have tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-84069563911110049992010-10-12T21:55:00.000-07:002010-10-14T17:56:37.626-07:00MDA to Jerry Lewis: "Thanks and f--- you!"The Muscular Dystrophy Association has distanced itself from and shown great disrespect toward its greatest asset and the man who gave it an international identity, saying today that Jerry Lewis "will be asked" to participate in the drastically-slashed telethon in 2011.We reported five days ago that something was amiss in the MDA's announcement that it would turn the 21 1/2 hour national tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-29583650854371725322010-10-12T21:54:00.000-07:002010-10-12T22:03:23.138-07:00Where's Jerry? Read the MDA press releaseWORLD’S TOP TELETHON EMBRACES SHORTER FORMAT TO INCREASE AUDIENCE AND INCOMETUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2010 – The Muscular Dystrophy Association today announced an important change to its perennial Labor Day Telethon, which for 45 years has galvanized tremendous public support for MDA’s lifesaving mission. The Association will shave more than 15 hours off its previous 21½-hour Telethon format. The tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-26323586469028020352010-10-10T08:20:00.001-07:002010-10-10T08:37:30.695-07:00Lightman's solo act issue in Osmond lawsuitThere's an interesting and forgotten footnote to Chip Lightman's lawsuit against Donny Osmond, for firing him as producer of the Donny & Marie show at the Flamingo. In August, 2009, after it was announced that Donny would compete in ABC's Dancing with The Stars, Mike Weatherford wrote in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:"The Flamingo was wise to lock in the duo with a contract extension through Oct.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-53190955268504549822010-10-10T08:09:00.000-07:002010-10-10T08:13:50.628-07:00Donny Osmond hosts Danny Gans runThough he's being sued by Danny Gans' former manager and producing partner, Donny Osmond couldn't miss hosting yesterday's second annual Danny Gans Memorial Champions run for the Nevada Cance Foundation-- not when it's been retitled the “Danny Gans Memorial Champions Run for Life Hosted by Donny Osmond."Chip Lightman filed suit after Osmond fired him last month as producer of the Donny & Marie tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-65438494508273945662010-10-08T17:10:00.000-07:002010-10-09T07:37:06.921-07:00Decision to slash telethon was "strictly MDA"Though he's national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Jerry Lewis was not involved in the decision to shorten the MDA's annual Labor Day Telethon that he's starred in, tirelessly promoted and has been singularly identified with for 45 years.A telethon insider tells us the decision to slash the national institution from its 21-hour marathon length and turn it into a Sunday night tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1